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The 'ls' command showing files using the normal wide formatting. Once you add a file called '-l', then 'ls' starts showing files in the long listing format.

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The 'ls' command showing files using the normal wide formatting. Once you add a file called '-l', then 'ls' starts showing files in the long listing format.
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Lee Holmes :donor: (lee_holmes@infosec.exchange)'s status on Saturday, 10-May-2025 16:58:20 JST Lee Holmes :donor:

It makes me super uncomfortable that globbing in Bash can turn into code execution. The fact that the name of a file can change the behavior of ls is scary. This also works for other commands that you tend to glob with, such as rm.

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